A CHILD DROWNED.
ADRIFT IX A BOAT. GV Telegraph._ Own Correspondent.) TAURANGA, Thursday. At noon to-day three little boys, named Slatty Mearns (4 years), Barnry Smith (4 years) and Bobbie Smith (3 years). •were- in a boat on the Waikareao. The loat drifted out, and it sr-ems that two of the boys jumped out, leaving Barney Smith to be carried out into the estnary. The alarm was given, and the boat was found stranded on a small island. Traces of the child were found on the island, but nothing more, and in a couple of hours the boy's drowned body was found half a mile further along the beach.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 46, 22 February 1918, Page 2
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109A CHILD DROWNED. Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 46, 22 February 1918, Page 2
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